Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

I haue desired Titus, and with him I haue sent a brother: did Titus pill you of any thing? walked we not in the selfe same spirit? walked we not in the same steppes?

Againe, thinke yee that wee excuse our selues vnto you? we speake before God in Christ. But wee doe all thinges, dearely beloued, for your edifying.

For I feare least when I come, I shall not finde you such as I would: and that I shalbe found vnto you such as ye woulde not, and least there be strife, enuying, wrath, contentions, backebitings, whisperings, swellings and discord.

I feare least when I come againe, my God abase me among you, and I shall bewaile many of them which haue sinned already, and haue not repented of the vncleannesse, and fornication, and wantonnesse which they haue committed.

But I trust that ye shall knowe that wee are not reprobates.

Nowe I pray vnto God that yee doe none euill, not that we should seeme approued, but that ye should doe that which is honest: though we be as reprobates.

For wee can not doe any thing against the trueth, but for the trueth.

For we are glad when wee are weake, and that ye are strong: this also we wish for, euen your perfection.

For nowe preach I mans doctrine, or Gods? or go I about to please men? for if I should yet please men, I were not the seruant of Christ.

For ye haue heard of my conuersation in time past, in the Iewish religion, how that I persecuted the Church of God extremely, and wasted it,

And profited in the Iewish religion aboue many of my companions of mine owne nation, and was much more zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

But when it pleased God (which had separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace)

To reueile his Sonne in me, that I should preach him among the Gentiles, immediatly I communicated not with flesh and blood:

And I went vp by reuelation, and declared vnto them that Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but particularly to them that were the chiefe, least by any meanes I should runne, or had runne in vaine:

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the trueth, to whome Iesus Christ before was described in your sight, and among you crucified?

I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.

They are ielous ouer you amisse: yea, they woulde exclude you, that ye shoulde altogether loue them.

But it is a good thing to loue earnestly alwayes in a good thing, and not onely when I am present with you,

My litle children, of whome I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ be formed in you.

And brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why doe I yet suffer persecution? Then is the slaunder of the crosse abolished.

Let vs not therefore be weary of well doing: for in due season we shall reape, if we faint not.

Wherefore cast off lying, and speake euery man truth vnto his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Bee angrie, but sinne not: let not the sunne goe downe vpon your wrath,

Be ye courteous one to another, and tender hearted, freely forgiuing one another, euen as God for Christes sake, freely forgaue you.

Take heede therefore that yee walke circumspectly, not as fooles, but as wise,